Word: stage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...winch system that raises and lowers portions of the set malfunctioned during the next-to-last scene of The Good Woman of Setzuan, smashing part of the set and almost causing a disaster on stage...
...wooden center portions of the set are raised out of sight by machine generated winches during the last scene of the play. A safety device normally stops them a specified distance above the stage...
Friday, however, the winches failed to stop the lower portion of the act. It carried the top part into the lighting grid 52 feet above the stage...
...three-pound clips that joins the winches to the set fell a few feet from stage manager Francine Stone '68. The 20-bv-8 foot wooden frame of the lower set was held up only because one of its corners was caught in a light...
...audience, separated by a curtain from the rear of the stage, heard a loud crunching noise just as Arthur Friedman, playing the First God, was complaining that "I can't stand the noise of all that gunpowder...